Navajo Nation v. Peabody Coal Co.

DECISION

SCHALL, Circuit Judge.

Peabody Holding Company, Peabody Holding Company, Inc., and Peabody Western Coal Company (collectively, “Peabody”) appeal the decision of the United States Court of Federal Claims that denied Peabody’s motion to hold the Navajo Nation (sometimes referred to as the “Nation”) and Paul E. Frye, the Navajo Nation’s counsel, in civil contempt for using, in a complaint filed ex parte and under seal against Peabody in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, a document Peabody produced in the Court of Federal Claims. Navajo Nation v. United States,…